Plants for Human Health Institute

Equipping teachers to integrate curriculum standards in the edible classroom and improving community nutrition through fresh produce.

Support Informational Text Lessons with Garden + Pollinators

Explore how pairing informational text with visits to the school garden can help to increase engagement.

Soils 101: Soil Microbes

What do soil microbes do to support healthy soil and how can you contribute to a thriving soil microbe population?

Brew Compost Tea

Making compost tea is a fun and easy way to increase the microbe population in your soil and, in turn, improve soil health.

Online Course Launching in 2023

Building Gardens, Building Minds, an online course to support teachers and school garden professionals will launch in 2023. Amy Bowman and Doug Vernon have delivered workshops across the country and participants love the actionable take-aways that are the hallmark of their presentations.

Even through the online platform, you’ll be engaged with videos and interactive features throughout each of the asynchronous 12 modules. Every 3 weeks over a 12 week period, a synchronous Zoom meeting will offer a check-in where the course cohort will come together for discussion and sharing. The course will conclude with a capstone in-person workshop at a school garden.

Whether you’re exploring the possibility of a garden, ready to establish a garden or eager to take your garden potential to the next level, this course is for you!

Visit the STEM Training Lab

At the Plants for Human Health Institute, we love science! We observe and hypothesize; we collect and analyze data (sometimes even BIG data), and we draw conclusions that help us understand the complexities of our biological world. The research conducted here covers a diverse array of disciplines that you can explore more on our PHHI website. In the training lab, we offer hands-on experiences that provide an introduction to our research and a connection to the type of work that’s happening in our labs.